Packaging sustainability efforts aren’t failing, but more can be done, said Crown’s VP of global sustainability. She described navigating the challenge of absolute targets and tailoring sustainability work to different geographies.
What happened
Aluminum food and beverage cans are having a moment, with manufacturers and analysts alike predicting a strong year for the sector. Crown Holdings aims to harness those timely growth opportunities while simultaneously advancing its sustainability work, said Sandrine Duquerroy-Delesalle, Crown’s vice president of global sustainability and external affairs, during a session at The Packaging Conference on Feb. 10.
While a different speaker at the conference suggested packaging sustainability efforts are failing, Duquerroy-Delesalle told Packaging Dive that this sentiment is not the full story.
Why it matters
It’s true that more could be done to collect packaging for recycling, decrease companies’ energy use, and overall lower carbon footprints, she said, but companies already have made progress and need to better champion that work.
For Crown, that means discussing headway toward the updated goals in its Twentyby30 program — a set of 20 ESG goals it launched in 2020 to achieve by 2030, compared to a 2019 baseline — and “pushing for more policies, more infrastructure, more consumer awareness to raise the recycling rate,” she said.
“We are on track with the commitments that we made five years ago, and we are even more ambitious now,” Duquerroy-Delesalle said, also highlighting the importance of collaboration across the value chain to promote sustainability. Although certain goals have shifted, overall “people are more and more conscious — I think this is across Europe and the U.S. — about circularity and how can they get their packaging to be collected and recycled. ... Circularity is very important to our business.”
This news brief is based on reporting published by Packaging Dive on 2026-02-24. The original report is linked below.
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